joyful - Story 80162 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of warmth blossomed in Ben’s chest as he clapped along to the wedding speeches. His friend, Sarah, beamed at the podium, and the air buzzed with celebration. Everything was perfect.

He glanced towards the back of the room, near the buffet table, and felt his breath hitch. Emily. His Emily. He hadn't expected to see her here.

He quickly turned back to the speeches, forcing a broad smile. He offered a toast, his voice a little too loud, his eyes sparkling with a light that had nothing to do with the string of fairy lights twinkling overhead.

Emotion: joyful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.96 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.67

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion joyful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 joyful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the joyful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the joyful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.615
`de`	0.600
`!`	0.572
`excitedly`	0.552
`enthusi`	0.533

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.893
`ness`	-0.513
`😞`	-0.470
`😣`	-0.337
`L`	-0.334